Sophie studied Combined Arts at the Royal Academy of Arts 1981-84, where, while obtaining her diploma in painting, she was encouraged by Sir Hugh Casson, the then director of the Royal Academy, to develop her sculpture.
1963 born London
1981 – 1984 Royal Academy Schools, London
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023
The Lightbox, Woking
St James Square, London
Gallery 8 Duke Street, St James, London
2019 – 2020
Berkeley Square, Mayfair, London with Hignell Gallery
2016
Salisbury Cathedral and locations around Salisbury town centre, Hignell Gallery, London
2013
Celia Lendis Contemporary Art Gallery, Moreton-in-the-Marsh, UK
Imago Galleries, Palm Desert, California, US
Royal West of England Academy, Bristol, UK
2011
Cartwright Hall, Bradford, UK
2010
Aynhoe Park, Bedfordshire, UK
2009
Victoria Art Gallery, Bath, UK
2008
Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield, UK
2007
Imago Galleries, Palm Desert, California, US
Frederick Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park, Grand Rapids, US
2006
Atkinson Gallery, Millfield School, Somerset, UK
2005
Canary Wharf, London
2004
Victoria Art Gallery, Bath, UK
Imago Gallery, Palm Desert, California, US
Storey Gallery and Lancaster town centre, UK
2003
Berkeley Square Gallery, London
2002
Metropole Galleries, Folkestone, Kent, UK
Courcoux & Courcoux Gallery, Salisbury, UK
Pierrepont Fine Art, Oxford, UK
2001
Galerie de Bellefeuille, Quebec, Canada
Berkeley Square Gallery, London
2000
Odapark, Venray, Holland
Courcoux & Courcoux Gallery, Salisbury, UK
Buschlen Mowatt Galleries, Vancouver, Canada
1999
Victoria Art Gallery and City centre, Bath, UK
Cartwright Hall Art Gallery, Bradford, UK
Berkeley Square Gallery, London
1998
Courcoux & Courcoux Gallery, Salisbury, UK
1997
O’Hara Gallery, New York, US
Cheltenham Art Gallery & Museum & Town centre, UK
Berkeley Square Gallery, London
1996
Belloc Lowndes Gallery, Chicago, US
1995
Berkeley Square Gallery, London
1994
Winchester Cathedral, UK
Red House Museum & Gardens, Christchurch, Dorset, UK
1992
Courcoux & Courcoux Gallery. Salisbury, UK
1991
Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield, UK
1990
Newport City Museum and Art Gallery, Newport, Gwent, UK
Courcoux & Courcoux Gallery, Salisbury, UK
1989
Henley Festival Berkeley Square Gallery, London
1988
St Paul’s Gallery, Leeds, UK
Courcoux & Courcoux Gallery, Salisbury, UK
1987
Edward Totah Gallery, London
Salisbury Cathedral Courcoux & Courcoux Gallery, Salisbury, UK
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2016
Hignell Gallery, London
2015
Lemon Street Gallery, Truro, UK
Blickacksen, Bad Homburg, Germany
2013
Wetpaint Gallery, Cirencester, UK
Caldwell Snyder Gallery, San Francisco, US
2011
Aynhoe Park, Bedfordshire, UK
Vancouver Biennale, Vancouver, Canada
2009
Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield, UK
Vancouver Biennale, Vancouver, Canada
2007
Blickachsen 6, Bad Homburg, Frankfurt, Germany
Vancouver Biennale, Vancouver, Canada
2006
Royal Hibernian Gallery, Dublin
2005
Vancouver Biennale, Vancouver, Canada
Solomon Gallery, Dublin
2004
Sculpture in the Park, Aykley Heads, Durham, UK
2003
Newbury Spring Festival, UK
2001
Kirkland International Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition, Washington, US
Eigsé, Carlow Arts Festival, Eire
Den Haag Sculptuur, The Hague, Holland
2000
Veranneman Foundation, Belgium
1996
Chelsea Harbour, London
1994
The Allen Gallery, Alton, Hampshire, UK
Berkeley Square Gallery, London
Sculpture at Goodwood, Chichester, West Sussex, UK
Artbus, Fife, UK
1993
Oxford Gallery, Oxford, UK
Art in the City, London
Bury St Edmunds Art Gallery, Suffolk, UK
Kilkenny Arts Week, Eire, UK
1992
Art at Milton Keynes Millfield School, Somerset, UK
Bruton Street Gallery, London
Arhus Festival, Denmark
Bruton Gallery, Bath, UK
Plymouth City Museum, UK
Mall Galleries, London
1991
Hannah Peschar Gallery, Surrey, UK
1990
Glasgow Print Studio, UK
1988
Plymouth City Museum, UK
Glasgow Garden Festival, UK
Cleveland Gallery, Middlesbrough, UK
Berkeley Square Gallery, London
Chilford Hall Press, Cambridge, UK
Oxford Gallery, Oxford, UK
1987
Louise Hallet Gallery, London
1986
Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield, UK
Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
Photographers Gallery, London
1985
Gallery 24, London
Henley Festival, UK
1984
Christie’s Inaugural Pick of the Graduates Interim Art, London
PUBLIC AND CORPORATE COLLECTIONS
Ballantrae Park, Dublin, Ohio, US
Barings Bank
BOC Group
Canary Wharf, London
Cheekwood Museum of Art, Nashville, Tennessee, US
Cheltenham Art Gallery & Museum, UK
Cheltenham Borough Council Conoco Ltd, UK
De Beers Collection Folkestone Town, UK
Frensham Heights School, UK
Gerrard & National Bank
National Trust, UK
New Hall College, Cambridge Newport City Museum & Art Gallery OHSU Foundation
Private Bank and Trust Company Ltd
RHS Wisley
Robert and Mary Montgomery Armory Arts Centre, Palm Beach, Florida, US
Seven Bridges Sculpture Park, Connecticut, US
Tyne and Wear Development Corporation, UK
Victoria Art Gallery, Bath, UK
Yorkshire Sculpture Park, UK
ARTIST IN RESIDENCE
2003
Newbury Spring Festival, UK
2000
Vancouver Sculpture Festival, Canada
1997
Cheltenham Art Gallery and Cleeve School, Cheltenham, UK
Cheekwood Sculpture Park, Nashville, Tennessee, US
1996
Boulogne, France
1993
Kilkenny, Eire
1988
Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire, UK
1987
Salisbury Cathedral, UK
1986
Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield, UK
Grizedale Forest, Cumbria, UK
ART FAIRS
Art Basel, Waterhouse and Dodd, Miami, US: 2016
London Art Fair: 2016
The Hamptons Art Fair, NY, US: 2013
The Armory Show, NY, US: 2013
20th Century Art Fair, NY, US (with Berkeley Square Gallery): 2003
Salon de Mars, Geneva, Switzerland (with Berkeley Square Gallery): 2001
Art Palm Beach, US (with Berkeley Square Gallery): 1999–2001
Art International NY, US (with Berkeley Square Gallery): 1998
Miami Basel Art Fair, Florida, US: 1994–2013, 2016
20th / 21st Century British Art Fair, London (with Berkeley Square Gallery): 1994–2001
Art Miami, US (with Berkeley Square Gallery): 1994–2001
Olympia, London: 1989, 1990
Business Design Centre, London: 1988, 1989, 1991 – 2001
Bath, UK: 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991
Zurich: 1986
LECTURES AND TEACHING
Sheffield Art College, UK
Loughborough Polytechnic, UK
Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, UK
Cheshire Art Teachers Conference, UK
Staffordshire Art Teachers Conference, UK
Jesus College, University of Cambridge, UK
Cheltenham Art Gallery & Museum, UK
Victoria Art Gallery, Bath, UK
Kirkland International Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition, Washington US
Mary Hare School, Newbury, UK
Frederick Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park, Grand Rapids, US
Oxbow School of Art, Saugatuck, Michigan, US
Keynote Speaker, International Sculpture Conference, Chicago, US
Cartwright Hall, Bradford, UK
Royal West of England Academy, Bristol
Waterhouse and Dodd, NY, US
Lightbox, Woking, UK
PRIZES
1992 Discerning Eye at the Mall Galleries: Art Newspaper Award for best sculpture in show